ATC Complete!

As a quick recap an ATC, or Artist Trading Card, is a mini work of art made onto sturdy card 2.5″x3.5″. Orginially hand drawn or painted, ATCs are never sold but are swapped with other artists. Their original aim was to enable people to collect small works by artists which they would otherwise not be able to afford.

There are 50 of us. We have all been allocated a fabric mad partner and given a theme which is ‘Autumn’. We all do the swap in early November. I hope mine stands up to scrutiny.
Here are the various stages of my card.

A few thoughts sketched out the day before.I took a dark colourway piece of fabric and placed it over a lighter one. I then stitched the trunk and branches of the tree.I cut away the darker fabric to expose the branchesAnd stitched a few more branches on topOnce cut out I used my old favourite Pritstick to stick the folded edges of fabric onto a piece of light card cut to size.I printed a few details onto a piece of linenand stitched it onto a piece of feltUse of Pritstick again to adhere the felt to the back of the card and a little top stitchingcompletes the card.